Mistakes Can Happen

[DaddyDub]

Oldie but made me laugh again:

A new young monk arrives at the monastery and as with all new monks he is

assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the

church by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from

the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to see the head abbot to

question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the

first copy, it would never be picked up. In fact, that error would be

continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The head monk, says "We have been copying from these copies for centuries,

but you make a good point, my son". So, he goes down into the dark caves

underneath the monastery where the original manuscript is held as archives

in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years.

Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried

and goes downstairs to look for him.

He sees him banging his head against the wall, and wailing. "We forgot the

"R"! "We forgot the "R"! "We forgot the "R"! "We forgot the "R"!

His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The

young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong father?"

With a choking voice, the old abbot replies,

"The word is celebrate!"